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[PATCH] spi: misc fixes

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This collects some small SPI patches that seem to be missing from the MM tree:

  - spi_butterfly kbuild hooks got dropped somehow; this restores them
  - quick fix for a (theoretical?) m25p80_write() oops noted by Andrew
  - quick fix for a potential config-specific oops for mtd_dataflash()
  - minor doc tweaks

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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David Brownell
2006-01-08 13:34:29 -08:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 8275c642cc
commit 7111763d39
5 changed files with 28 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ shows up in sysfs in several locations:
/sys/devices/.../CTLR/spiB.C ... spi_device for on bus "B",
chipselect C, accessed through CTLR.
/sys/devices/.../CTLR/spiB.C/modalias ... identifies the driver
that should be used with this device (for hotplug/coldplug)
/sys/bus/spi/devices/spiB.C ... symlink to the physical
spiB-C device
@ -247,6 +250,12 @@ driver is registered:
Like with other static board-specific setup, you won't unregister those.
The widely used "card" style computers bundle memory, cpu, and little else
onto a card that's maybe just thirty square centimeters. On such systems,
your arch/.../mach-.../board-*.c file would primarily provide information
about the devices on the mainboard into which such a card is plugged. That
certainly includes SPI devices hooked up through the card connectors!
NON-STATIC CONFIGURATIONS
@ -258,6 +267,10 @@ up the spi bus master, and will likely need spi_new_device() to provide the
board info based on the board that was hotplugged. Of course, you'd later
call at least spi_unregister_device() when that board is removed.
When Linux includes support for MMC/SD/SDIO/DataFlash cards through SPI, those
configurations will also be dynamic. Fortunately, those devices all support
basic device identification probes, so that support should hotplug normally.
How do I write an "SPI Protocol Driver"?
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